Hay-sling apparatus.



E. '0. TWINING.

I HAY SLING APPARATUS. APPLICATION FILED PEB.10, 1912.

Patented Feb. 11, 1913.

l I l ERNEST C. TWINING, 0F CLEMENTS, KANSAS.

HAY-SLHEG APPARATUS.

Specification of Letters Eatent.

lPfEiJQRliCQtl-l Feb. til, i913.

Application filed February 10, 1912'. Serial No. mm.

T0 aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Ennnsr C. Twmino, a citizen of the" United States, residingat Clements, in thecounty of. Chase and State of Kansas, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hay-Sling Apparatus; of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a peculiarly constructed platform adapted to support a sling below its surface, whereby on raking,

the hay on the platform and over the hay sling, the latter will not become entangled in the sweep rake but remain beneath the hay for hoisting into a barn or wagon as the case may be. 1 y I For a full understanding .of the present invention, reference is to be hadto the following description and to the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a top planview of the present invention having a hay sling applied thereto. Fig. :2 is a bottom plan view thereof. Fig. 3 is a longitudinal sectional view of the platform. Fig. 4 is a transverse sectional view thereof. Fig. 5 is a fragmentary perspective view of the rear portion of the platform.

Throughout the following detail description and on the several figures of the drawings, similar parts are referred to by like reference characters.

Referring; more particularly to the drawings, 1 designates the platformor body, preferably constructed of sections, the edges of the sections being provided with tongues and grooves to afford a tight joint between the sections and rigidify the construction of the platform. 'Each section is provided with a pair of spaced frame members 2, running transverse .to the platform, and the front edge of the platform is provided with a slope 3, up which the hay rake is adapted to move. The lower edge of the slope 3 is provided vwith a strip 4 of iron or other suitable metal to prevent the edge from wearing away under constant use.

Mounted on the rear edge of the platform is a vertically extending board 5 forming a stop for limiting the movement of the sweep rake and also positioning the latter properly over the hay sling for depositing the hay thereon.

The sections 1. are provided with a pluralitv of sling receiving openings 6 running longitudinally with respect to the plat-form and the central section 1 is provided with diagonally running openings 7 connecting with certain of the openings 6. The central section 1' is also provided with the opening 7 running-parallel with, the openings 6. l'fhe adjoining edges of the sections are recessed, as at 8 so that, upon assembling the sections together, a plurality of trans verse sling receiving openings are, formed and are connected at one or more points with the openings 6 and 7.

The-hay sling used in combination with the platform comprises two sections 9 and 9', each section comprising the flexible cables 10 and the rigid cross members ll. The latter lie in the transverse openings formed by the recesses 8 while the flexible portion of the hay sling is supported in the openings Gand 7. The sections of the hay sling are detachably connected, as at 12, which connection may be broken by withdrawing the pin 13 with the rope 14, the latter lying in the opening 7 formed in the central section of the platform.

It will be noted that the flexible portion of the hay sling is supported on the frame members 2 while the cross bars U. are unsupported, excepting through the remainder of the hay sling. By so mounting the hay sling, the weight of the cross bars will hold the ropes of the hay sling taut, thereby preventing any upwardly projecting loops which would, lll-eelrll probability, become en tangled in the hay rake as the latter mounts upon the platform.

Having thus described the invention, what I claim as new is:

1. A device for supporting a hay sling comprising a flat'p atform provided with transversely and longitudinally disposed slots adapted to receive portions of a sling in such a manner that they are below the surface of the platform, id t. one dge of the platform, whereby a and an inclined hay. rake may be guided up on said platform therein and the adjoining latter in spaced relation, a platform having a series of openings therein for receiving the cross bars,'the platformalsohaving a second series of openings to receive the cables, and cable supporting members spanning the second series of openings in the platform and disposed below the surface of the latter.

4. In combination, a hay sling comprising aplurality of cables and spaced cross bars.

carried by the cables to hold thelatter in spaced relation, a platform for supporting t 'e sling Whilehay is being deposited thereon, the platform comprising end and intermediate sections, the intermediate sections having transverse openings therein, frame members extending across vthe openings for supporting the cables of the sling therein, and stop members carried by the intermediate sections, the adjoining edges of the sections of the platform being provided with recesses which form openings, when the sec-- tions are assembled, to receive the cross bars Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. 0. 

